They probably "teamed up" because Proton is paying FX a shit load of cash so they promote their higher price model to the all so valued users who are getting brainwashed into Chrome as we speak. Not sure if this "deal" will help with that.
"data imported from linked networks when authorized by users" That why I never use that shit and always just make a new account. Its just putting in a email instead of pushing a button but this providers have fooled everyone in to signing in with 3rd partys for no reason other then to collect more stuff from you.
Mozilla is way better then the others but still not great.
The numbers are so low because people do not care about any privacy whatsoever. I hope the pay the price one day and regret it.
To name just one reason FFX sync is prate and secure by default unless all the others who use your bookmarks to sell them. You by default (you can disable it) share all you bookmarks with Google. Hell yeah hi Google I have torrent sites or whatever PRIVATE stuff bookmarked. Here have it all and store it instill I am dead. And when I find out about it and disable it you already have what I need from my initial sync. Thanks yeah you are so nice to me Google.
I know a few year(s)? ago FFX was still the most user in Germany (where people generally do care more about privacy and things like that). But when I look at the stats now it seems Google has managed to even Brainwash the Germans.
Mozilla is not even very good on the claims they have. They may be working closely with the Tor browser team but I think Firefox should essentially become something like the Tor browser. Their Addons have become a walled garden as the recent cause about that paywall prevention Addon that got kicked of the "store" showed. If I got that right people can not even install it in stable versions of FFX.
Also that "Profile" Generator showed here on HN as well shows they have several deeps flaws in the browsers that need addons for fixing like canvar tracking and stuff I did not even know about. The Tor brower does all this things by default. Why does Firefox do not even have UI to some of those settings and others even need extra addons ...
I could go on. Here I am criticizing Mozilla when I actually thing there are the best browser Vendor ever. They are an non-profit. They have done so many great things for the web and there was only as extreme short tiem where I was about to switch to Chromium because the devtools or Firebox where really really slow and clunky. I am a Forefox user from the very start and I am really disgusted how Google pushed their Browser in their searches to the point that even Linux users who have if they really want to install Chromium. They should just use FFX. But what are they doing? They install Chrome. Google has even brianwashed Linux users into thinking they need Chrome. Chrome is 99% chromium with 1% proprietary Google crap on top of it. If really baffles me how stupid people are.
I lost could on how many Linux tutorials and "First things to do after installing ..." I read that had Chrome in there. Just yesterday I read a top answer on AskUbuntu about how to enabled unattended installs for PPAs and Chrome was yet again there in the example. Chromimum is right there in the sources you Idiots. Why would you infest your almost entirely open source OS with this Google crap?
Firefox is a good browser and Quantum made is faster and less resource hungry. Mozilla works on this new Browser engine with Samsung that speeds things up by a lot. Many parts are already in FFX today but I think the main parallel GPU rendering stuff is not yet. Not up to speed with that. Anyway Chrome may be "faster" in benchmarks or "feel faster" but believe me this few milliseconds are really really not worth it.
Mozilla also (until now) allows Adnauseam that clicks every ads it finds, based on uBlock origin. Chrome forbids this Addon lol but you inlike in FFX just can sideload it. I love that concept and its the Adblocker I use. It may help them with tracking me but I just love the fact that I might cause them pay per click losses.
Mozilla is not as good and as anti advertising as I would like them to. I mean Google payed 40% of their income at a time how independent can they be? They redirect search tos the this evil data snake for money to this day. I heared their CEO talk about how she likes some ads but she does not like the tracking lol. So she wants ads that do not relate to her so why not just no ads at all?
Oh the other hand where would they be without Google money? I am wondering if they would be able to make it crowd funded with Wikipedia style "annoy beg to donate ads" across half the screen.
I think the "everbody does so we are cool with it" excuses pretty laughable to be honest. Not every webapp claims to be a most private and secure app out there so here we go again with "ease of use is more important then security". I thought Protonmail was different but its obviously not.
"ProtonMail, like Whatsapp and Wire, offers apps on Linux, Windows, MacOS, iOS, and Android."
Really then point me to that Linux app please. The website only links to Android (In my opinion with Google BS way less secure then using the webapp in Firefox on Linux) and the IOS app but NO Linux app so that statement seems to be BS. And the "Bridge" thingy that is I think aviable for Linux is NOT a Linux native app and its also only aviable for Pro customers.
Oh yet again another SJW crybaby piece. Stop getting offended. The tech and the crypto world is dominated by men for biological and historic reasons (Read James Damres pro-diversity Google memo and its sources). So obviously they are likely to think a women is +1 at a event. That does not make them evil white men who hate you. How about you stand up proudly and impress them with your crypto knowledge instead of this SJW BS?
You should look up his first interview with Richard Stallman, this guy was driving me crazy. He is the opposite of religious. He did not even understand what Free Software is back then, it was absolutely pathetic.
Its really really hard to believe after hearing what James Damore has to say how dedicated Google is for semi forcing all this diversity classes on googlers.
"equal or similar work" Yeah sound more like similar. I I hope its all BS, they will not get some Feminist SJW Judge and this gets thrown out fast, then I want to thank and saltmine the hell out of them.
I had the exact same Idea wanting to use my tablet with a bunch of shortcuts that I can hit on a HTML/CSS button interface. For a tablet screen there could be so many botton on there that there would be no need to contextual switch them for different apps, at least not for me.
One day we will have keyboards where we can put on the keys exactly what we want. And 102 keys sounds a lot but if you ask me there could be 200. I never use a touchbar but I think its a step in the right direction, yet far from there.
What really really turns me of is that proprietary crap. Why do proprietary shit on top of great open source software and then market yourself as this great new "independent" thing. Really, make it ALL copyleft and I am all in.
Why is this stuff so hyped? It does not surprise me at all. A computer can calculate every step in milliseconds. Whats so surprising? When did the first chess computer beat the world champion? 50 years ago?
Still cant get over it hat M$ is now working with linux and git extensively. I have got this feeling they don't deserve to use it. But something good for others may come out of it for sure.
I think its terrifying that Firefox has so many build in things that make it easy to track people. Yet they claim to be so much about users privacy ... I think most of the stuff tor browsers does should actually be in firefox by default. Excluding Tor itself and noscript enabled by default.